Open Source Initiative to Accelerate Apache Hadoop Adoption Across
the Enterprise
PALO ALTO, Calif. & RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat Summit 2013
Hortonworks,
a leading contributor and enabler to enterprise Apache Hadoop, and Red
Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced an engineering collaboration to
advance open source big data community projects. Working with the ApacheTM
Hadoop® Community, the Hortonworks and Red Hat engineering teams will
work together to accelerate the enablement of the broader file system
ecosystem to be used with Apache Hadoop. The companies also announced
the integration and support of Hortonworks Data Platform with Red Hat
Storage, which can reduce a Hadoop cluster cost by up to 50 percent
since customers can now run Hadoop directly on a POSIX-compliant storage
node.
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The Hortonworks and Red Hat engineering effort has three main focus
areas and is expected to increase the breadth of storage offerings that
integrate and interoperate with Hadoop, making it possible to analyze
data in place anywhere within the enterprise.
The first focus area is to enhance the Apache Ambari project, the open
source project to monitor and manage Apache Hadoop to support the
management of Hadoop-compatible file systems, such as GlusterFS. With
this integration, users will be able to provision, deploy, monitor and
manage alternative file systems with Ambari. The source code is 100
percent open and available to the entire Apache community, allowing
participants to leverage these features to enable the implementation of
many of the leading file systems and object stores available today.
The second focus area is the creation of generic test suites to validate
compatibility between Hadoop and alternative file systems. Hortonworks
and Red Hat will contribute these extensive testing blueprints to the
open source community for use by any developer looking to test file
system compatibility with Hadoop.
The third focus area is both companies are working to integrate
Hortonworks Data Platform with Red Hat Storage so that enterprise
customers will be able to process stored data on Red Hat Storage. Since
Red Hat Storage is POSIX-compliant, it makes it easy to connect to the
enterprise applications and run Hadoop analytics on enterprise data to
reduce duplication of data and save costs.
Supporting Quotes
Greg Kleiman, director, Strategy, Red Hat Storage
"Red Hat,
Hortonworks, and the entire Apache Hadoop Community have a tremendous
opportunity to help customers bring Hadoop analytics to a larger portion
of the big data residing in the enterprise. This collaboration will
focus on developing open software-defined storage from Red Hat as a
Hadoop-compatible file system managed with Hortonworks' Data Platform
including the open Ambari framework, which we expect to be an absolute
game-changer by providing an easy, fast and cost-effective solution for
enterprise big data customers."
Greg Pavlik, vice president of engineering, Hortonworks
"Hortonworks
is dedicated to bringing a 100-percent open source Hadoop to the
enterprise and our engineering-level relationship with Red Hat and other
leading technology vendors helps ensure the integration of the Hortonworks
Data Platform with existing enterprise infrastructures. By
driving innovation through the open communities, we look forward to
working with Red Hat to increase overall open source Apache Hadoop
adoption in the enterprise. This collaboration only increases the
already rapid pace of community-driven innovation happening around
Hadoop."
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About Hortonworks
Hortonworks is the only 100-percent open source software provider to
develop, distribute and support an Apache Hadoop platform explicitly
architected, built and tested for enterprise-grade deployments.
Developed by the original architects, builders and operators of Hadoop,
Hortonworks stewards the core and delivers the critical services
required by the enterprise to reliably and effectively run Hadoop at
scale. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform, provides an open and
stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and
deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks also provides unmatched technical
support, training and certification programs. For more information,
visit www.hortonworks.com.
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